Antivirus = Virus

[postmortemIA]

So my mom's machine won't boot anymore - Kaspersky 2009 update blew it so she gets either BSODs or XP reboots upon coming to desktop reboots - can't use computer at all. Then Kaspersky complains it can't start in 1 of 10 times it boots ling enough to see the message. She is on limited user account, so no software could been installed.

I see this other thread where Norton has disabled cookies, so PC is unusable for shopping.

Any (anti)virus makes boot process longer for at least minute, hard drive keeps crunching and crunching.... until kaspersky is loaded you can't open any other application

At work, McaFee takes more than half of day to do the disk scan...

Seriously, I wonder how people who got nobody to help them deal with these issues? They gotta be sitting by computer for hours doing nothing than listening to hard drive crunching and crunching...

Update: It wasn't Kaspersky but a bad RAM. Kaspersky had module that detected that Kaspersky crashed, so that report has been sent to them.

 

[lxskllr]

I've never had problems with A/V. I've had irritations that got me to change products, but all the ones I've used have worked fine.

 

[WildHorse]

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[lxskllr]

Originally posted by: WildHorse


I regret buying Avira. Antivir is brainlessly simple, not even remotely in the same league as the certain-death-lizard Kaspersky. Nothing gets past Kaspersky. Antivir isn't even in the realm of KIS.

Thing is, Kaspersky takes a bit of learning to use properly. They have a free tutorial on their web site.

But if that's too troubling, then a mindless flyweight like Antivir might be a choice. It only costs about 1/3 as much as deadly Kaspersky. If you use it, just run lots of updates & scans, say like maybe a few times daily.

WTH are you talking about? Antivir scored better in the last comparative(August). Not that it matters much. They're both good products, and one should be chosen on the preferred interface, and operation.

 

[Dark Penguin]

I remember Trend Micro auto updating itself and my machine into oblivion. Apparently the update was only available for a short period of time. Good thing their AV was set to Paranoid with ADD mode.

 

[mechBgon]

Originally posted by: WildHorse
Nothing gets past Kaspersky.

I respect Kaspersky Lab greatly, but that is wildly optomistic thinking. Stuff does get past Kaspersky, and I would know :camera:. Don't make a security-software product the beginning & end of your defensive strategy; I'd suggest adopting low-rights operation and some other proactive tweaks to reduce your attack surface (obviously in addition to risk avoidance and user education).